Over the past decade, a wave of venture-backed companies developed sensors and software to improve farm irrigation.
While the glossies have long had a reputation for accommodating the designers they cover, sometimes guaranteeing coverage to those who advertise in their pages, a wave of new ventures and partnerships suggests they are willing to go even further by selling the designers' clothes.
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"A second wave of venture companies are destined to die," said Steven Dow, a partner at Sevin Rosen, a venture firm in Palo Alto, Calif.
These companies are part of a growing wave of venture capital investments into branded consumer goods predicated on using information technology to reduce costs and the Internet to market directly to customers.
"The new law is already encouraging a wave of mergers, joint ventures and alliances in the health care industry," said Prof. Thomas L. Greaney, an expert on health and antitrust law at St . Louis University
The new law has already set off a wave of mergers, joint ventures and alliances in the health care industry, as providers try to position themselves to cash in on the new incentives.
With a budget that is expected to reach $3 million to $4 million in two years, the project is one of the most ambitious in a wave of nonprofit online ventures that have emerged as newspapers and magazines cut jobs and newsgathering budgets.
As for the balance between traditional media and the avant-garde in the Chernin Group, Mr. Nelson said the plan has less to do with channeling cash from old to new than allowing Mr. Chernin to focus on a next wave of ventures that might elude large, established companies.
